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All the Sweaters
Querido’s Steve McQueen Weekend Cardigan in Quince & Co. Osprey is coming along… and I have also started swatching for a Midtown cardigan in some yummy Romney from Vermont Grand View Farm. What’s on your needles this Sunday?
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Fall is Coming
Thank you for all your kind words for Melba. I am still terribly sad, but there are many things to keep me busy and distracted. First there is a little bit of blog tidying. I finally took the time to go ad-free and give this little blog its own domain, anti-quotidian.com. The redirect should work
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Goodbye Melba
Dear Readers, Today’s post is a sad one. If you need happy reading, or don’t have a box of tissues handy, I suggest you read elsewhere. On July 28, I said goodbye to Melba forever. The best, sweetest little dog had been carrying around a tumor for over a year, and at the end of
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County Fair
It’s county fair season here in Kansas. My only experience with fairs is the Arizona state fair, which is more about the rides than agricultural excellence. I’ve been working a lot with agriculture documents at work, and decided that for a properly authentic Kansas experience, the county fair was the thing to do. Even though
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All the Garter
It’s been a hot weekend here in Kansas, with bright days of 100 degrees or very nearly. They have a nifty thing called a heat index here, which must have something to do with humidity because I never heard the term bandied about in Phoenix. As far as I can tell, it means that even
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Half the Year
Half the year has passed in a flash: winter, then spring, and now we are speeding through summer. This midway point has inspired me to clean out closets, to pretty up the house, and to clean up my Ravelry page. Those of you on Ravelry have probably noticed that this last is a time-consuming endeavor.
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Hotdogs and History
Happy Fourth, all. Having just read Stephanie Pearl McPhee’s resounding cheer for Candada, I’d love to offer you something similar. Don’t get me wrong: I’m decked out in a red, white, and blue dress, looking forward to a lunch of hot dogs off the grill with coleslaw and a nice iced tea. But that whole
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Summer Looks Like
I may have missed the boat on spring photos, but at least I can attempt to capture summer. The sun is much brighter than I expected it to be, akin to that searing Arizona sun that toasts you to a crisp the second you step out in it. This is Kansas, though, so there’s always
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